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Independent 8787

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Across

7 Difficulty about league team’s weak point (5,4)

8 Erotic art lacking heart – endlessly boring instead (5)

10 Waste a little drink (most of beer) (5)

11 Old instrument, strange, with tips of metal hooks enclosed in metal band (9)

12 Franchise ultimately precedes a roll etc possibly described thus? (9)

13 Vessel mostly filled with American food (5)

15 Soil shortage (no depth) (5)

17 Hands back farthing with disdainful response (5)

21 Couple done over after clipping wings of little baby bird (5)

23 Shock broadcast of story without foundation doing for security expert (9)

25 Spies attending opening of play after tense note from strategist (9)

27 Forbidding European filth (5)

28 Big animal runs hard into no end of forest (5)

29 Large quantity, on being swallowed by cattle, produces much explosive power (9)

Down

1 Heroine of novel, literary – what will author do about the French name? (6,4)

2 One reveres union agreement subsequently (8)

3 Hard problem? Heading off to fiddle (6)

4 Quits ale, changing – to these? (8)

5 Priests inviting millions in for harvest festival (6)

6 Regret picking up old coin (4)

7 Servant‘s a busy fellow, sending son packing (6)

9 Reasonable numbers seen around in rising sport (6)

14 Fun etc. is, if organised, ample (10)

16 Endless twist about drop in European capital (8)

18 I note attractions providing more thoughtful pieces of information (8)

19 Hero of series to wander aimlessly (6)

20 Lead programme finally involving garden goddess (6)

22 Carefully adapt shadow military force (6)

24 Light punishment restricting originators of dodgy loans (6)

26 Film speed (4)

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